SPRINGBOKS: Full press conference 20 July 2023 - Jacques Nienaber and Jesse Kriel

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Well it was good to hear an unemotional assessment about the test against the wee abs. 

It must have seemed to the oaks you were hearing Beeno speaking!

Note the point about playing rusty players. 

So yes we won the the last 60 minutes 17-15. However that did not include two disallowed tries one of which was undoubtedly a try. Or how about a conversion hitting the post and Kwagga's try near the post not being conver ted.

All in all we were extremely close in getting another 19 points. 

But all these things were disregarded by over emotional oaks. 

So congrats to Nieaber for getting it right just like Beeno did from the get go. Hahahahaha. It's called rugby acumen oaks. In short supply in some quarters! 

I see we are going to have an extremely tough draw. 

Hope Handre Pollard is fit and ready for RWC. 

Mampara power do the maths oak. We could very easily have win the 60 minutes by 2 plus 19 = 21 points. 

Mampara power please apply lonely brain cells before posting. Try and follow what the coach is saying. Nice to see a rational man not reaction with emotional nonsense.

Thanks

How Jessie Kriel can be the face of Bok rugby is a mystery.

The Boks are so riddled with mediocrity it really doesn't faze me anymore. It seems appropriate. There was a time when Kriel was one to worst players in the squad. Now he is one of the better ones. It's a very cruel time to follow the Boks. 

Arendse cannot compete in the air, can't defend, and cannot work constructively on attack. He is a track runner who can run into free space. That's not a quality rugby player. 

But do go ahead Coach... lets have your references for Marx and Libbok. You seem to always know better, but you can never give specifics... just errant conclusions that defy logic and fact. 

Hmm, just rubbish being spouted. I'm sorry but they keep getting things wrong when selecting players and it tells on the pitch. 

Also, abs showed how to dismantle Nienaber defense. Squid rugby did a really good analysis on this.

The score board still reads lost by 15 points and even we did get the Kolbe try and conversion of the kwagga try. We are still 6 points short. 

You should always field in form players. 

How do we have to see under cook players who haven't played a game for several months or there first game back from injury? 

I also stressed that the Japan boks will need to become match sharp. 

Then, look at New Zealand. They currently have a 15s team playing a series against Japan, in Japan to keep players match sharp. 

Sounds old excuses. I have heard this from Pieter DE Villiers and also from Coetzee 

Marx didn't have much of an impact for a good while after he was on. He popped up at the tail of the farcical lineout, and that was it. He wasn't especially effective at anything. 

Marx's inspirational, got McCaw like qualities

This is utter nonsense. What field presence did Marx have? McCaw, an average player, did have actual leadership qualities. Where was the communication from Marx? Where was the production? Marx was not integral to any aspect of the Bok play. He was a much lesser presence at the breakdowns (attack and defence) than Kwagga, Steph, Koch, Eben. I cannot recall a moment where Marx slowed any ball down. There is a gross overestimation of the Bok's meager second half and then no analytical capacity to understand what any player did on the field. The biggest marker of this was Willie. None of you saw Willie playing 10, and instead, it was a fight between Willemse and the woefully inadequate and inferior Libbok. I am appalled by the ineptitude of it all. 

I saw Willie playing 10, Deus….

Lots of forward play gets missed, at least when you look at individual performances.
None of the bomb squad had a great individual game, but the team looked completely different.

 Each time one of the bench like Marx, Duitoit, Vermuelen, and Snyman got onto the pitch, the pack looked better as a unit 

The Bok pack was more observably overpowered in the second half. Du Toit added pressure, that has been admitted, and RG muscle... the rest were barely present. Thor did almost nothing of note. We may have looked a little better in the scrums, but that's where it ended. The casuals are desperate to assert that the second half proved the Boks were the better team... it actually proved the opposite. Marx was much better than Bongi, but he was not very good on the day. I've been through this game ruck by ruck. 

It takes accuracy and composure. They are also far more skillful than us. We are poorly coached and it shows.